From the monthly archives:

September 2008

The Supremes – Tracks 3 & 7

2008.Sep.30 Tuesday

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.” – Plutarch, Greek Historian, Biographer, Essayist Buenos Aires – Continuing on my series of Supreme Directors’ walks – we pick up, chronologically, though not geographically, [...]

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Lions and Tigers and Horses and Flowers Oh My!

2008.Sep.29 Monday

In his hearth and home, in his palace, upon his soft and comfortable bed, day and night, the flower-girls scatter flower petals; but without the Lord’s Name, the body is miserable. Horses, elephants, lances, marching bands, armies, standard bearers, royal attendants and ostentatious displays – without the Lord of the Universe, these undertakings are all [...]

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What Debate?

2008.Sep.27 Saturday

The same me that stands here now When I think that all this stuff Can make a life that’s pretty hard to take it in, that was me That was me, ya, that was me!” – Paul McCartney, final lyrics to That Was Me Buenos Aires – I wasn’t a member of the debate club [...]

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Wait! I didn’t get my order yet…

2008.Sep.25 Thursday

Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun. Charging to 300… Clear! Buenos Aires – ’nuff said.

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Welcome Back Persephone!

2008.Sep.24 Wednesday

I highly doubt that the rites themselves involved the literal sacrifice of virgins in a re-enactment or literalisation of the Persephone-Hades descent myth. The reason I say this is because a critical element in the myth itself involves the rebirth of Persephone herself from the lands of the dead. Remember, it was not Persephone who [...]

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You Must Love Me

2008.Sep.23 Tuesday

There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radish.” – Eva Perón Buenos Aires – While I have been to quite a few events held in the garden or dining room of the Museo Evita, and toured the museum once a few years [...]

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Ushering in the Next 50

2008.Sep.22 Monday

Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in [...]

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Half Century, Nowhere Near Halfway

2008.Sep.19 Friday

Whereas some of my contemporaries may be satisfied to embrace aging gracefully as part of the cycle of life, that is not my view. It may be ‘natural,’ but I don’t see anything positive in losing my mental agility, sensory acuity, physical limberness, sexual desire, or any other human ability. I view disease and death [...]

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All Hail Jupiter!

2008.Sep.18 Thursday

As Jupiter reached opposition earlier this week, it put on a spectacular show of cannibalism for anyone viewing with modest telescopes. Planetary specialists around the world have been watching with bated breath as a cataclysmic encounter between Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS), Oval BA (Red, Jr.), and the newly discovered Little Red Spot (LRS) unfolded [...]

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